A new art exhibition in Australia features sculpture flowers that react to text messages. Created by Matthew Gardiner, the man behind Oribotics, a melding of origami and robotics, the faux flowers respond to text messages from around the world, opening, closing and growing just as any real…

UPDATE: Sergio Callisto made a nice comment that publications like the Metaverse Messenger, a Second Life newspaper, have been selling advertising placement for quite some time. Cost per column inch are L$50 for Second Life businesses and $7 U.S. for real world businesses…